There is still a week to go until India’s first match of his Australian tour, but the entire tour has already made headlines, the most important of which is Virat Kohli’s paternity leave. The Indian captain will play the ODIs, T20Is and the first test in Adelaide before returning to be with his wife Anushka Sharma, who will give birth to the couple’s first child.
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Many former cricketers have supported Kohli’s call, even if it means he won’t be fully in India’s defense of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Former India World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev in conversation with senior sports journalist and writer Ayaz Memon on Day 2 of the 18th Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, weighed in on the issue, welcomed the move and said he is happy for Kohli for this new position he is about to get.
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“I don’t think we can afford to go back and forth. That is sure. Sunil Gavaskar did not see his son for many months. It was something different. Look, things change. If I’m talking about Kohli, when his father died, he went back to playing cricket the next day. Today she is going to get her baby. Okay, you can afford it, ”Kapil said while speaking via video conference at HTLS 2020.
Kapil highlighted how different things were during his playing days and that the facilities in cricket today allow today’s players privileges that he and his former teammates could never imagine.
“You can buy a plane and go back and forth in three days. I am happy and proud that athletes today have reached a level where they can do this. I am happy for Virat. He sees his family again. I understand that you have passion, but the greatest passion is that he is going to have a baby, ”she said.
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